A Dallas anesthesiologist was sentenced Wednesday to 190 years in prison for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into bags of intravenous fluid at a surgical center where he worked.Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

Dallas anesthesiologist sentenced to 190 years for deadly IV bag tampering

Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr. was convicted of actions that led to his coworkers' death and cardiac emergencies for 10 other patients

· National Post

A Dallas anesthesiologist was sentenced Wednesday to 190 years in prison for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into bags of intravenous fluid at a surgical center where he worked, leading to the death of a coworker and causing cardiac emergencies for several patients.

The emergencies began two days after Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr. was notified of a disciplinary inquiry into an incident during which he allegedly “deviated from the standard of care” during an anesthesia procedure when a patient experienced a medical emergency.

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